Identifying fake resumes

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This, again, I put on a Yahoo group a week odd ago. 1st is the mail
received, then my reply. Pool in your thoughts please.
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Hi HR Gurus,

Need your valuable inputs on how to identify a fake
resume as this is one of the major challenges
recruiters are facing these days.

Thanks in advance.
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Here is out of my little experience in elimination. What I have
mentioned below are not rules of the logic of identifying fake
resumes, but a general observation where the probability of a fake
resume falling in the given category is very very high.

1) Absence of personal details
- Date of Birth
- Passport Number
- Residence Address

2) Very sterotype mail addresses, eg., For the name Raghu Reddy, the
email address is something like manu_advice@..., or
raghuexpert@..., which does not actually associate with a
person's name etc. (I use this email address of mine to stay
anonymous, something of that sort. Like manu_advice could be of
Manoj, Manish etc., and the person can switch identities, or evade
identification easily)

3) Only a first name is given. And if a seemingly full name is
given, it has a lot of initials (hence the chances that a RGB Reddy
having other resumes with the name Raghu GBR, Raghu Reddy GB, Raghu
Ganesha B R etc is very high.

Moreover, I have observed that if the combination of the above is
present, the chances that the candidate holds fake experience is
almost 95%. That is the reason why I started the mail with a
disclaimer because the 5% of the remaining candidates must not lose
out because of personal beliefs/assumptions.

Also observed, (in case of IT resumes), the names of clients
associated with projects would be very absurd or ambiguous. Such
as "State Bank, US", "VTC, Sweden" (A few names I found in Raghu's
resume)

*Not to miss out this part*, candidates of this sort would not
mention the name of the college they studied in, the branch they
specialised in, not the year they passed out, or completed their
course in, instead it would be,

" B.Tech from JNTU University, Hyderabad with an aggregate of
75%"

Also, you would notice that the percentage would tend to be rounded
figures.

If you would want to confirm this. Call the candidates, the
probability that the candidate would say "I am busy, call me after 1
hour" is almost 90%.

The litmus test:
To eliminate them (to confirm your doubts), have a few (2 ot 3)
basic questions in their branch of studies, and also in the area
they claim expertise in, such as, in electronics, ask them
what 'noise' is. Ask what the logic behind a 'multivibrator' is and
where it is used in real life. Then ask them to tell you to explain
how a recursive function would work, and what the flow of logic is.
You may also ask questions like what the runtime memory allocation
table would look like etc.

After they have answered none of your questions, use your lively
imagination and ask them something really silly and hypothetical and
non-existent. If the candidate babbles out some answer, then you
have just confirmed that the candidate is a fake.

I hope this was helpful and clarifies my perspective.

[sandeep reddy]

HI Vijay,

 

The points that you have mentioned are very true but not in all cases and not to 95% extent.

 

Creating email ids with some pecular names which are not related to thier names may be due to many different reasons.

Even i have so many email IDs, it is becoz they might like it or it may be to hide from thier current organisation.

 And coming to personal details many who are looking change would hide all their personal details because only monster has that strong confidential methodology and rest others are not so safe to give all details and making it confidential. so it is the best method to hide their profile from the current organisation.

 

I agree with the rest of your Points.

 

one more thinng i would like to add is  you will not find a resume with 1 yr or 2yr experience because most of these fake resumes start with 2.8 onwards which will be in the verge of 3 yrs so that they can start as SSE.

 

Thanks & Regards

Sandeep.S